I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it’ll teach you valuable things and you’ll grow stronger, which is what I’ve done.
ELLIE GOULDINGBy the time I got writing ‘Halcyon,’ I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn’t really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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I guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
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I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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I’d just like to think that there’s some kind of underworld where whoever’s been lost at sea is there… I dunno, there probably isn’t, but I’d like to believe there is.
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I feel like my figure is a challenge because I’m quite flat chested but I’ve got a booty so I’ve got to look for the right things.
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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world… somewhere there’s a world that I don’t know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.
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You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer’s patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
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I’m never happy with my face, my hair, I haven’t really got any boobs and I’m not really that tall.
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I still don’t know if I can write songs. I don’t think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
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I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
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I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
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Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it’s like your body will work against you.
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